Buckle



(No Model.)

0. R. HARRIS;

. BUCKLE- Patented Nov. 29

Fig. l,

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS NITED STATES PATENT Erica.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,976, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed September 27, 1887. Serial No. 250,820. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES R. HARRIS, of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender and other Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to suspender and other like buckles in which the frame of the buckle has applied to it a sliding roughened or toothed cross-bar for holding on the web or band passing through the buckle, and also to buckles in which the frame of the buckle is provided with a lower hook for making the required connection between the parts to which the buckle is applied.

The invention consists in a face-bar applied to the buckle below the toothed or back crossbar, for use in connection with the latter, and having attached to it a spring-snap for use in connection with the hook of the buckle, substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front view of a suspender strap or web in part, with a buckle embodying my invention applied, the web being partly broken away in front of the toothed cross-bar, and said view also showing in part the ring-engaging ends or portions ofthe suspenders' attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section ofthe same, in part, upon the line x 00 of Fig. l, the web being shown whole or not in section; and Fig. 3 is a face view of the buckle with its lower face-bar made stationary and detached from the sliding cross-bar, instead of attached thereto, as in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring in the first instance to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. A is the buckle-frame, which may be made of wire bent and doubled upon itself to form a double-wire hook, b, below, or otherwise constructed with a lower hook, and which frame may have its upper ends entered within a tubular sleeve, 0, or be otherwise connected.

B is the toothed cross-bar, fitted to slide up and down the side members of the frame A, and which may be of any suitable construction so far as its toothed surface is concerned. Gonnected with this sliding cross-bar, integrally or otherwise, isa lower face-bar, 0, preferably of a fiat or plate construction, and which has a lower spring-snap, d, attached to it and arranged to enter down within the hook I), for the purpose of insuring the retention of the ring or stirrupf of the suspender ends or portions D within the hook. V

E is the web of the suspenders, which is entered beneath the upper frame portion or sleeve, 0, of the buckle,over in front of the sliding toothed cross-bar B, and, passing through a slot or slotted way or passage, 9, is continued back of and beneath the face-bar C and lower portion or member, h, of the buckle-frame.

The lower face-bar, 0, not only gives a more showy finish or appearance to the front of the v buckle, but in its connection with the toothed cross-barB it serves, in the adjustment of the buckle or web E through the buckle, to cause friction on the web when it is drawn up, and acts to hold the web more firmly onto theteeth of the sliding cross-bar B. Said face-bar also serves to carry the spring-snap d for operation within the hook b,as and for the'purpose hereinbefore described.

Instead of the toothed cross-bar B and the face plate or bar G being made to constitute a single slotted structure, the same-may be made in separate and detached pieces or sections, as shown in Fig. 3, the toothed cross-bar B, with the slot g for the web, only being fitted to slide up and down upon the sides of the buckle-frame A, and the other section or facebar 0, with its attached spring-snap d for the hook b of the buckle, being stationary on the buckle-frame.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, ,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V 1. The suspender or other like buckle herein described, having a roughened or toothed sliding cross-bar for hold on the engaging web or strap from its rear, and a lower frontplate or face-bar adapted 'to bear on the face side of the web or strap within theframe of thebuckle, for operation 1n connection with said frame and with the toothed cross-bar, substantially as specified. V

2. The suspender or other like buckle herein described, having a roughened or toothed ICC sliding cross-bar and lower front plate or facebar for operation on reverse sides of the web or strap within the frame of the buckle, as described, said front plate or face-bar provided with a lower spring-snap for operation in conneetion with a lower hook on the frame of the buckle. essentially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the bnekleframe, of a sliding toothed crossbar and attached lower front plate or face-bar provided with an lntervening slotted way or passage for the web or strap within the buckle-frame,said toothed cross-bar and attached lower front plate or face-bar being arranged to operate upon reverse sides of a web or strap passing through the buckle, as set forth.

4. The combination, with the buckle-frame having a lower attached hook, of the sliding toothed crossbar and attached lower front plate or face-bar having a lower attached springsnap adapted to close the hook, said toothed cross-bar and attached front plate or face-bar being arranged to operate upon or from reverse sides of a web or strap passing through the buckle, substantially as specified.

CHARLES R. HARRIS.

XVitnesses:

FRANK H. MCCORMICK, HENRY J CAMPBELL. 

